“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it,” he said. If that all sounds familiar, it’s because pretty much the exact same story is playing out here.Īssociation of general surgeons president Rowan French delivered some dire news to RNZ’s Morning Report about hospitals’ current troubles with scheduling elective surgeries. Hospitals are dealing with staff absences, exhaustion, persistent backlogs and problems discharging patients, and the UK government is considering bringing back restrictions if the situation gets any worse. In the UK, about 13,000 hospital beds are currently occupied by Covid patients. In the United States, hospitalisations and reinfections are rising with the increasing prevalence of the BA.5 strain of Omicron. Many places around the world have dropped their Covid restrictions.īut even if we’re determined to ignore it, Covid has remained stubbornly real, and is continuing to cause equally real harm. In places like Ireland there’s no mask wearing at all.” In most of those places we didn’t have a single Covid conversation. “It’s interesting to me I’ve just come back from Singapore, Ireland, and the UK. National leader Christopher Luxon just returned from a whirlwind overseas tour with the news that most people he met were no longer even talking about Covid. Stuff’s audience is part of a much wider group that’s actively moving on from Covid. It implored them to find cracker non-Covid stories on topics including cons, crime, and safety, the cost of living, NZ culture, and stuff everyone is talking about. Recently a senior Stuff executive sent staff a memo telling them their audience is “over Covid” and has “actively moved on from Covid content”. The announcement that the pandemic is over would have been news to the families of the eight people reported to have died with Covid-19 in New Zealand that day.īut du Plessis-Allan is far from an outlier in wanting to place a still raging pandemic in the rearview mirror. Isn’t that ultimately why we’re feeling miserable because we all want a break? If I was in government what I’d do right now is ‘green setting guys, go for your life, party party, whatever’. “The pandemic’s over for all intents and purposes but we’re still having to deal with this nonsense. On her show last week, Newstalk ZB’s Heather du Plessis-Allan made a momentous announcement in an almost blithe, off-hand manner. The Dominion Post summed up the reasons for new Covid control measure announced last Wednesday.
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